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Pearson and IBM to deliver learning-on-demand

Pearson, the world’s biggest educational publisher, has formed an alliance with IBM to deliver a ‘learn-on-demand’ service to the home.

WebCT Announces Opening Creation of WebCT Performance Lab, Continuing Support for Tru64 UNIX Support

Lynnfield, MA and Vancouver, BC – WebCT, the world’s leading provider of integrated e-learning systems for higher education, has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art WebCT Performance Testing Lab.  The Lab will conduct benchmark testing for WebCT, the worlds leading course management system. The Company further announced that Compaq Computer Corp. has signed on as […]

Does Satellite Technology Have a Place In The Future of Distance Learning?

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — National Technological University and PBS The Business & Technology Network have been known for many years for their superlative distance learning courses delivered via satellite. When the two merged their operations in 1999, one critical challenge was to expand into the brave new world of e-learning. In the process of making […]

NETg Delivers Leading Edge , e-Learning Initiative To Verizon

NAPERVILLE, IL – NETg, powering intelligent decisions through learning, has signed a multi-year agreement with Verizon, one of the world’s leading providers of communications services. The agreement makes the extensive NETg IT, Desktop and Business Skills e-Learning library available to Verizon employees via web-based access. NETg was selected based on the range of topics offered […]

Compatibility issues dog XP

Next version of Windows may have fewer apps able to run on it

Just Like Buildings, Web Sites Must Be Accessible to Everyone

How accessible is your distance education system for students with disabilities? Soon you’ll have to comply with federal and state laws requiring equal access to education for all. Designing Learning Accessible to Students with Disabilities, a workshop sponsored by EASI, begins on May 7. The workshop will be lead by Norman Coombs, Professor Emeritus Rochester […]

Future of Fair Use Seminar

June 15th, 2001 University of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center Adelphi MD

The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions Revolutionizes Member Services With Live eLearning and Collaboration Software from Centra

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the world’s leading provider of software and ASP services for live eLearning and collaboration, today announced that the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, the largest association of public and private sector trade unions in Denmark, has selected Centra’s real-time collaboration software to give their members access to information and skills on new […]

Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands Web Site Launches

The Independent Television Service (ITVS.org) debuts the companion website to the documentary RISING WATERS, www.itvs.org/risingwaters, where Pacific Islander students, fishermen, elders, scientists and farmers put a human face on the international climate change debate. The television program will be broadcast nationally on public television stations beginning this April. (Check local broadcast listings at www.itvs.org). To […]

The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions Revolutionizes Member Services With Live eLearning and Collaboration Software from Centra

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the world’s leading provider of software and ASP services for live eLearning and collaboration, today announced that the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, the largest association of public and private sector trade unions in Denmark, has selected Centra’s real-time collaboration software to give their members access to information and skills on new […]